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Dear Colleagues,
We invite applicants to submit a Notice of Interest for 2020 UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarships on disability or mental health.
1. Violence, abuse and people with intellectual disabilities – recognition and prevention
2. Improving the physical health of people with severe mental illness

UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship Inclusions
The UNSW Scientia Scholarship includes tuition fees, an AUD$41,000 annual stipend, AUD$10,000 travel and collaboration support and personalised coaching and mentoring.
Expressions of Interest close on Wednesday 12 July 2019.
For information on UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarships go to: https://www.scientia.unsw.edu.au/scientia-phd-scholarships
Other SPRC PhD scholarships are listed here https://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/education-training/postgraduate-research/scholarships/.
Other UNSW PhD scholarships, including disability topics are listed here
https://www.scientia.unsw.edu.au/scientia-phd-scholarships

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1.                 Violence, abuse and people with intellectual disabilities - recognition and prevention
https://www.scientia.unsw.edu.au/scientia-phd-scholarships/violence-abuse-and-people-intellectual-disabilities-recognition-and
Project Description
The Social Policy Research Centre project will research how people with intellectual disabilities understand and enact their right to live free from violence and abuse and the policy implications in the highly topical contexts of the Royal Commission into Abuse of People with Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Topics could cover access to justice for people with complex needs and could contribute to recognition theory and disability theory to explore intersections between disability, interpersonal and institutional violence, safety and gender. Preference is for innovative participatory approaches to address the sensitivities of the topic and to enable co-production.

Ideal Candidate
High-quality candidates will have personal participatory experience in the intersectionalities of the topic, which enables them to conduct inclusive research with people with intellectual disabilities and complex needs. They will be able to demonstrate their personal experience and relationships that enable the feasibility of the research, in ways that are sensitive to expectations from people with intellectual disabilities and their allies. Preference will be for candidates who are familiar with social science and co-production methods. Desirable qualities will be connections to national and international disability communities and academic research for high quality empirical research, theory contribution and knowledge exchange with policy impact.
Supervisory team
Karen Fisher
Social Policy Research Centre
Heikki Ikaheimo
Arts & Social Sciences
Humanities and Languages
Sally Robinson
Flinders University
Disability and Community Inclusion


2.            Improving the physical health of people with severe mental illness
https://www.scientia.unsw.edu.au/scientia-phd-scholarships/improving-physical-health-people-severe-mental-illness
Project Description
People with severe mental illness have poorer physical health and shorter life expectancy than other people. Reasons include health behaviours, effects of psychotropic medications, trauma and access to preventive healthcare. CPHCE and SPRC are working with mental health consumers to understand their experience of preventive healthcare and improve their access and physical-health outcomes. The PhD will use participatory methods to understand the barriers and define their rights and preferences. It will then codesign and evaluate world-first interventions that improve the capacity of consumers, carers and health care providers to meet their preventive care needs in primary healthcare and the community.

Ideal Candidate
High-quality candidates will have sufficient experience and expertise in the topic to be able to conduct inclusive research with people with severe mental illness and with health service providers. They will be able to demonstrate relevant experience and knowledge relating to the intersection of mental health and physical health, a critical approach to promoting positive health outcomes and sensitivity to the needs of consumers and their families/carers. Preference will be for candidates who are familiar with mixed-method research and co-production methods. Desirable qualities will be direct or indirect lived experience of mental illness, experience in primary health care and mental health service settings and familiarity with key frameworks that guide contemporary practice. Candidates will be able to demonstrate their ability to express themselves well in writing and presentations, and work collaboratively with consumers, families/carers, health care providers and other researchers. Enrolment can be in either research centre.
Supervisory team
Mark Harris
Public Health & Community Medicine
Catherine Spooner
Public Health & Community Medicine
Karen Fisher
Social Policy Research Centre


Kind regards,
Karen Fisher
Professor, Disability Research Program
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
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ph +61 2 9385 7813, Mon-Thurs
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Disability Innovation at UNSW<https://disabilityinnovation.unsw.edu.au/>

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